Improvement in mode of packing smoking-tobacco



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F.. WBEcK AND E. W. SIEBERT, oF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

l Letters .PatentNa 71,684, dated December@ 1867.

IMPRGVElltlIEhl'l IN MOI-)E 0F PACKING SMOKING-TOBACCO.

TO ALLWHOM IT MAY CQNCERNL. v I

Be'it known .that we,-F. W. BECK and E. W. SIEBERT, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and-improved Manner of Packing Smoking-Tobacco; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, a-nd exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled'in the art to inake and .use the same. reference being'had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this -apc'cification. r

I The drawing represents a perspective view-of our invention.

This invention relates to a new method of packing smoking-tobacco in Isuch a manner that it may be in the most convenient` form for consumers.

The invention consists `in putting the ready-prepared and cut smoking-tobacco into'small bags, of such size that they maybe placed into the pocket of ordinary garments, saidbags being closed by means of strings,l `which are drawn through the channels formed around their mouths. The .bags will, in this form, answer=as tobacco-pouches, which can be readily opened and closed, which can be carried bythe consumer, and used until f theyare empty.

I A Heretofore, tobacco was'paoked for retail trade either in paper packages, or in woven bags, the latter con sisting of one or more pieces sewed together. In none of these packages could the tobacco be retained to be carried in the consumers pocketv after the packages were once opened, asthey could not be again securely closed. By packing the tobacco at once in pouches which can be opened and closed at will, it is brought into the most practical form forconsumers.

represents a bag or pouch, hemmed around its mouth so as to form a channel forA the admission of the cord B, by means of which the bag can be closed or opened at will. The size of the bag is such that it can be conveniently carried in the pocket, it being adapted to hold from about one-eighth to one-half or a whole pound of tobacco.'

' Thtobacco is placed into the bag, and is pressed,- so as to completely fill the same.. Thebag is then closed and the string is tied, its ends being covered with a seal or label to prevent the fraudulent opening of the bag. The tobacco is sold in these bags, and, when the same are opened, they can again be closed, and the tobacco can consequently be gradually taken from the bag as it is beingused. v

Insteadof hemming around the mouth of the bag, the string may be drawn directly th'rough the body of the bag in a. well-known manner.

We do not claim placing tobacco into bags, as tha-t has already been done, suchbags'being closed by seams on; all sides; but we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patenti As a. new article of manufacture, a package of cut smoking-tobacco, the envelope of which. is a cloth bag constructed, asdescribed, so that it can be opened and closed lat pleasure, in the manner and for the purpose F. W. BECK,

E. W. SIEBERT. Witnesses for BECK:

Dsvm H. HUBBABD, HEINR. STEINFELDT.

Witnesses for Smnnar: "A. V. Bnlnsnn,

Wn. F. McNamara. 

